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I’m glad they explained why RAM has become soldered to the board recently. It’s easy to be cynical and assume they were doing it for profit motive purposes (which might be a nice side effect), but it’s good to know that there’s also a technical reason to solder it. Even better to know that it’s been recognized and a solution is being worked on.
I'm not arguing philanthropy. Bethesda makes a bad product that that costs a fortune to generate. It's shrunk the size of its market and its time is limited. Tango's business model is sustainable, Bethesda's is not.
It's less about natural light than ventilation. If whatever ventilation systems the building uses breaks down, interior rooms without opening windows are a liability.
The vast majority of games that get released each month are straight-up garbage. And for the minority that aren't, I'd hope that people in a YC-affiliated forum of all places would see that a product getting released does not equal financial viability.
Maybe because it works to often..
and I still have a an original iPad Air first gen.....still works for basic things. Unsupported by apple now, but still usable.
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The timeline is a killer, because 11 years (and more) from beginning to end means you could end up with your new building opening just as the area goes into a slump.

When the turnaround time is shorter, the builder is taking much less risk, and so they're more willing to build. (They can still overextend as happened during the last housing bubble, mind you.)
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I get frustrated seeing this go into the iPad and knowing that we can't get a shell, and run our own binaries there. Not even as a VM like [UserLAnd](https://userland.tech). I could effectively travel with one device less in my backpack but instead I have to carry two M chips, two displays, batteries, and so on...

It's great to see this tech moving forward but it's frustrating to not see it translate into a more significant impact in the ways we work, travel and develop software.
Even so, the physics of everything being amenable to life, etc... seems like just as easily none of that could have existed. Instead, we have gravity, strong nuke forces, and everything on up (temperature, water molecules) that all seem to be "pro life".

It's like everything in the universe wants existence and to be felt by something. I can't just assume coincidence because of that.
Why would it be? They announced the same for the A17 in the iPhone. Turns out it was a gimmick that caused over 11W of power draw. Raytracing is a brute force approach that cannot be optimized to the same level as rasterization. For now at least, it is unsuitable for mobile devices.
Now if we could use the RT units for Blender that'd be great, but it's iPad OS...
Whatever they're holding up in that picture, it looks more like iced tea versus cold brew coffee.
Everything you say makes sense, with the exception of your expectation not to pay extra for an unusual order (for that cafe). Consider if I asked for my salad to be roasted, and balked at a surcharge on the grounds that they also have roasted brussel sprouts! I don't think it's up to you to decide what orders fit into their flow and which cost extra. I'm glad you found the places that will make the coffee the you like.
Yes, but that’s not the impressive bit. The impressive bit is that a piece of software with a hologram projector (unless you were at the last Coachella, in which case it was the screen for you) sells out concerts worldwide and puts on a performance for “her” fans.
Ah, right, you mean _outside_ the memory block of the array! Sorry, my mind was just foggy this morning.

That's not strictly possible, but "circular" references are with "stride tricks". Those can accomplish similar things in some circumstances. But with that said, I don't think that would work in this case.
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If they literally just said that the iPad's NPU is faster than the NPU of any other computer it'd be fine, I would have no issue with it (though it makes you wonder, maybe that wouldn't have been true? Maybe Qualcomm or Rockchip have SoCs with faster NPUs, so the "fastest of any AI PC" qualifier is necessary to exclude those?)
How would any store or restaurant survive being on the third floor in the center of an apartment building?
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I was ready to buy one today, too. Disappointing.

I miss my old iPad mini 4. I guess I could try the 11" iPad, but I think I'd prefer it to be smaller.
I'm under the impression that this CPU is faster AND more efficient, so if you do equivalent tasks on the M4 vs an older processor, the M4 should be less power hungry, not more. Someone correct me if this is wrong!
A surprising answer to issue 2 is that Copilots are filling in the gap. Rails, VS Code, and Github Copilot work very well. Both for autocomplete and explanation. I expect them to get better as context window size improvements arrive.
I don't particularly buy any of the explanations given in the article, or ITT for that matter. I had tons of screen time as a child, that didn't stop me from reading a ton then or now. Schools (and I) were just as test-focused back then. I wasn't getting book recs from my peers so that doesn't make sense to me either.

Maybe I'm an anomaly here but I never found the books targeted at children/teens especially interesting. Around 8-9 my mom gave me a book, a couple hundred pages long, intended solely for adults, but it was about something I was passionate about. I loved it and never stopped reading after that.

My advice: if you want your kid to read, give them books they'd be interested in. Not 'age appropriate books', just books. Read books yourself and talk to your children about them. Build a personal library and lend books liberally, to children, friends, family, everyone. A culture of reading and enjoying books is your best bet for instilling a love of reading in your chilld.
I wound up getting a 2019 iPad Pro for 50% off, so $500 or so. Thought I would use it as a work/play hybrid.

Surprisingly (at least to me) I feel that I've more than gotten my money's worth out of it despite it being almost entirely strictly a consumption device.

I tote it around the house so I can watch or listen to things while I'm doing other things. It's also nice to keep on the dining room table so I can read the news or watch something while we're eating. I could do every single one of these things with my laptop, but... that laptop is my primary work tool. I don't like to carry it all over the place, exposing it to spills and dust, etc.

The only real work-related task is serving as a secondary monitor (via AirPlay) for my laptop when I travel.

$500 isn't pocket change, but I've gotten 48 months of enjoyment and would expect at least another 24 to 36 months. That's about $6 a month, or possibly more like $3-4 per month if I resell it eventually.

Worth it for me.
Agreed, at least in my experience in the US we are conditioned from a young age to associate reading with tedium and monotony. When you have to 'read along with the class', stop after every chapter to write an essay, hyper-analyze every sentence until all the fun of discovery is sucked out, and generally be in an unpleasant and uncomfortable environment as you do it, you will over time associate the activity in general with those negative aspects and avoid it- despite the activity itself being potentially very enjoyable in a different context
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It’s the term Microsoft, Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm decided to rally around. No need to get upset at Apple for using the same term as reference for comparison.

Ps. Nvidia also doesn’t like the term because of precisely what you said. But it’s not Apple that decided to use this term.
> isn't a tablet just a media consumption device?

This is actually most of the storage space -- videos downloaded for consumption in places with no or bad internet.
Nuclear fusion has entered the chat.
Nonsense - you can have documented metrics which are known and tied to performance.

For example:

* Require features to be launched for a period of time rather than in development or shoved out the door a week before perf

* Have metrics for customer satisfaction and oncall pages be incorporated

Etc.
Because many are used as vacation homes or just money laundering. With wealth inequality at historical world records, the rich can just buy both, and they do. Lol
Microsoft too: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/15/23960345/microsoft-cpu-g...
I agree but think that's different. That's probably a 10min-read kind of article versus a couple-hour-long book. I agree with the parent comment that reading is just slower. All of the blabbering people do in podcasts and in youtube videos to draw out the length feels like it ends up in books too but it's harder to skip because you don't really know when the important stuff happens. I just turn youtube videos and podcasts up to 2x speed then I don't really have to worry about it.
A lot of the same for me, down to reading silly non-fiction books just to read something as a child. This has become nearly vestigial as I've gotten older.

I'm curious what books you felt were 'for' you?
Have any examples from the past decade? Especially in the context of how exaggerated the claims are from PC and Android brands they are competing with?
The boring, productive stack for desktop apps IS web apps.
I have an android... and the hotspot integration (with my mac) is as simple as "click the hotspot button and everything works". Seriously wondering what you think "ideal" looks like if not that.

Well the wifi burns extra energy, but there's also the "plug them together with a USB cable, hit the USB tethering button, and everything works" option.
That’d be true if putting ice in coffee reduced its acidity. Heating cold brew brings a lower acidity liquid up to a nice warm good morning temperature.
Yes but Apple has never gone iPad first on a new chip either, so I was with him in that I assumed it wouldn’t be what they would do.

“Let’s make all our Macs look slower for a while!”

So I was surprised as well.
or Azorian: Raising a Larger Percentage of the K-129 Than Had Been Raised Before.
yeah.. it's amazing how much time and money is thrown at these new cpu's with such tiny diminishing returns for the end consumer.
I wish we could do like a 4 year cycle of progress where engineers had longer cycles to innovate and like make a comprehensive upgrade rather than wasting all of these materials for a 10% upgrade that no one will notice.
It’s nice graphics, but it’s also voice acting, and robust storytelling that sets a good AAA game apart from indie games for me.

Honestly even some of the indie games are getting pretty incredible graphics these days thanks to Unreal Engine.
Huh, I'd love to taste a sample. This would be such a nice extension to an existing Espresso setup!
Currently an iPad Air with the Magic Keyboard is my main personal computer. I’ve found that it’s the most enjoyable device to use for internet browsing. It replaced my Chromebook, which had that role before. Like the Chromebook, it’s got a physical keyboard, so it’s good for typing. The cantilever also places the screen closer to my hands, helping me to fluidly switch between keyboard and touch navigation, which both work well. The browser is noticeably snappier than my Chromebook was, although that might come down to a better processor generation.

A secondary use-case is watching movies while traveling. I did my taxes on there too - Google sheets, scanning receipts from the camera into the Files app, all work well. I plugged in a monitor for that.

The one thing I’m not doing on there is coding. I only do that on my work laptop. If I had personal programming projects, I’d surely be using a laptop that lets me run my own code as my personal computer.

The price for the new Pro sure is high, but I’m tempted. The phone’s 120Hz OLED has spoiled me. Surely they sell more of the cheaper models, but they might as well make a halo device to rake in as much margin as they can from people who are willing to pay for the best.
Yeah, if you’re OK with it making everything up, it “works incredibly well”. I’m not ok with that, so I actually prefer models where hallucination is minimized as much as possible because they encode massive amounts of knowledge. Points don’t matter. Of all SOTA models, GPT4, the largest one, hallucinates the least. Almost not at all, in fact.
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Apple ships 128 bit, 256 bit, and 512 bit wide memory interfaces on laptops (up to 1024 bit wide on desktops).

Is it feasible to fit memory bandwidth like the M3 Max (512 bits wide LPDDR5-6400) with LPCAMM2 in a thin/light laptop?
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Most of California’s electrical costs are due to transmission and distribution, and I believe a lot of those costs stem from reducing power-related wildfire risks.

Last time I checked, 11 states received the majority of their electricity from renewable sources, and 10/11 had cheaper rates than the national average, with California being the exception.
I _believe_ it was in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash where a pair of 7 year old brother-sister twins used complimentary and contradictory postings -- sometimes assuming eachother's identities or creating new ones -- in newsgroups to influence public opinion. When disinfo on Facebook and Twitter went nuclear in 2015 -2016 those fictional siblings were first to mind
So why should I buy any Apple Laptop with M3 chip now (if I'm not in hurry)? lol
I'm in ops and we've found that simple exercises are better at weeding people out than complex ones.
Fair, but url syntax is strictly defined in RFC 3986: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986
Local LLMs are sluggish on my M2 Air 8GB,

but up until these these things I felt I could run whatever I wanted, including Baldur’s Gate 3.
The US has 400 land-based nuclear weapons, not thousands upon thousands. They're there to be a better thing for our enemies to aim at than our cities.
As a longtime reader/listener I don’t see him as hating Gurman at all.
> We'll see about Qualcomm's Nuvia-based stuff, but that's been "nearly released" for what feels like years now, but you still can't buy one to actually test.

That's more bound by legal than technical reasons...
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Also the thousands of suppliers that have improved their equipment and supplies that feed into the tsmc fabs.
I’ve never heard anyone refer to an NPU before. I’ve heard of GPU and TPU. But in any case, I don’t know the right way to compare Apple’s hardware to a 4090.
> Might be true in Detroit or something

Not a chance. At least not for habitable housing. And by the way, the population density in metropolitan Detroit is 10th highest in the US. It's hardly the empty wasteland that people imagine.
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He spills Apple's secrets. Gruber had him on his podcast once and called him a super villain in the Apple's universe, or something like this. It was cringeworthy
I'm glad whiteboard interviews are dead now that everyone does "virtual" on-site interviews. When I interviewed at Google, I requested a laptop because writing on a whiteboard all day hurts my hand. Every interviewer complained about me using a laptop.
Any idea when M4 will be in a mac pro?
Bring on the AI:

- Procedural worlds

- Realistic NPC conversations

- Dynamic and unpredictable encounters
Interesting fact about the mortgages - some states (California for example) still have anti-usury laws on the books that mean that purchase mortgages for real estate are non-recourse.

What this means is that in a big housing downturn, you just send the keys to the bank and walk away; they get the (now underwater house) but you don't owe anything additional, though your credit may take a hit for awhile.
I wouldn't make the assumption that the people buying luxury units will be moving out of lower-priced units.

In Canada's major cities, for example, we see such luxury and non-luxury units being bought as stores-of-value by wealthy foreigners trying to avoid risk or capital controls, rather than as something to be actively lived in by them or anyone else. Supply is consumed, without any being relinquished.

Even when the owner might reside in such a unit, it ends up being more like a dedicated hotel room for them. They'll simultaneously own luxury residences in other cities and/or countries, and travel between them. Again, supply is consumed (in multiple markets), without any being relinquished.

The luxury market really isn't like the broader housing market.
The fact that the example is "org.apache.fury.benchmark.data" makes me think that there is probably a lot of room to do better than 5 bits per char, if the goal is simply to reduce space. E.g. you probably know ahead of time that the string "org.apache.fury" is going to be very common in this context, and giving that a 2-bit or even an 8-bit codepoint would be a huge space savings over the project. That said, it's not super surprising that you'd rather have a suboptimal encoding than have the complexity of a decoder that depends on the project. But of course you've already chosen to sacrifice simplicity for the sake of space to some degree by rolling your own encoding when you could use readily agreed-upon ones, which people assume is because space is at a premium. It's not surprising that the reader wonders why this space savings is worth this complexity, but that space savings is not worth it. I think what's missing is the justification of the tradeoffs, at least in the blog post. Both the space vs time tradeoffs which I can imagine are important here, and the space vs. complexity tradeoffs that are more subjective.
The entry price for a virtualization-optimized iPad Pro (née Ultra?) is $1600 USD for 4 performance cores, 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. Keyboard, pencil, LTE will push the cost over $2K.

Is that sufficient tribute for Apple to unlock M4 and iOS 18 support for nested virtualization of macOS and Linux? Until then, iSH Linux emulation on iPad Pro offers a functional CLI, patience exercises and redlined CPU cores for hand warming.
Honestly this just makes me happier that I invested in a M3 MacBook Pro.
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And flywheels! That’s what my startup is working on.
Exactly. In San Diego the peak electricity price is $0.75/kWH, the highest in the continental USA. There is literally a functional nuclear reactor sitting idle a few miles north at San Onofre, and NIMBYs oppose nearly everything all new construction and upzoning.

California is not a good model for almost anything these days, just look at the high speed rail project. Cost of living is worsening for the middle and lower classes who are emigrating to other states. The government is corrupt and inefficient, spending vast sums on homelessness while achieving effectively nothing. Progressives can't blame anyone but themselves since California is a one party state with no real opposition.
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I'm not sure if some people think that audiobooks "don't count", but I think they're the only alternative when you have a heavy schedule and a long commute. Plus you can adjust the speed of the playback as needed. So slowness shouldn't be a problem to put on in the car if your kids are ready to read chapter books.
You meant going back to the first thread? If yes, you can just horizontally scroll (using trackpad or scroll wheel + shift). If not, go back where?
you can fire someone immediately in the US. so i don’t understand why any of this is necessary in hiring.
That’s why a lot of people weren’t expecting this an even questioned Mark Gurman’s article saying it would happen.
Why are we running these high end CPUs on tablets without the ability to run pro apps like Xcode?

Until I can run Xcode on an iPad (not Swift Playgrounds), it's a pass for me. Hear me out: I don't want to bring both an iPad and Macbook on trips, but I need Xcode. Because of this, I have to pick the Macbook every time. I want an iPad, but the iPad doesn't want me.
"Programming" is only half the battle. E.g. doesn't overcomplicate the codebase with weird one-off solutions, can actually work on features, some of which (God forbid) involve a UI or existing code.

In 20 years, most leetcode style genius types I've worked with really aren't great at this type of SaaS work.
Or use an external storage. I’d be wary of using my iPad as primary storage anyway. It’s only work in progress and currently watching/reading media.
It's just risk aversion. Companies want to turn video games into a factory line golden goose, but struggle to reconcile that each iteration through that factory line makes the final product relatively worse and worse, even if it continues to look better and better. Now even Call of Duty can't find a Call of Duty killer. But these same companies are terrified of trying anything new because new things do, on occasion flop. It would also entail scrapping the factory line, because creating a new game, instead of reskinning and old with a few new tweaks, is a way different beast.

That said, I don't really think the stereotypes of indie games are very valid anymore. Valheim looks great, has a massive open world, and is multiplayer. [1] It also started entirely as a result of one guy's pet project, until he grabbed a coworker and then set off to make it what it became. The graphics are stylized, but I think in a broadly aesthetically appealing way, as opposed to e.g. pixel graphics which are very off-putting to many people, myself among them. Pixel graphics came from an era of CRTs with interlaced scanning, and various other visual artifacts, that naturally blurred, antialiased, and blended them. Sharp jaggy edges never really existed, and I fail to understand why that's a popular style now.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSVbXgBJIuI
It’s not even just the obvious plumbing providing hot and cold water, and the drain pipes carrying away waste water. You also need vent stacks for all the drains. You also need to put in a whole lot of hot water heaters and the associated electrical work to handle their demands.
Texas could be a good example that is ramping up more battery usage without having massive energy prices. Granted the energy system in Texas needs other changes (feb 2021 winter storm for instance!) but it could end up being a good template in the long run.
No this is caching with SSDs, it's not the same league.